Virginia Beach Public Surplus: Yamaha YBB-641

[arpthark]

https://www.publicsurplus.com/sms/aucti ... uc=3630348

[DonO.]

I have never understood why band directors keep buying these when they can have Miraphone 186s for the same money or less.

[travisd]

My wife won the auction on this one... We'll see what shape it is when we actually take possession of it. Maybe a player, maybe it ends up next to the 20J with no valves...

[arpthark]

My wife won the auction on this one... We'll see what shape it is when we actually take possession of it. Maybe a player, maybe it ends up next to the 20J with no valves...

What was the final price? Looks like the auction link has expired.

[travisd]

About $300 I think.

[catgrowlB]

^ Your wife got a steal of a deal on that tuba.

[PlayTheTuba]

I have never understood why his band directors keep buying these when they can have Miraphone 186s for the same money or less.

Or the B&S gr51 or when they were still in production the 3103 (pt1)

[travisd]

Took this one out yesterday to finally see what we bought. It plays - all the rotors move fine, linkage is noisy as anything though. Plenty of dents in the main branches, nothing horrible though. Few braces separated/missing. I think the bell has been buffed enough times that none of the factory engraving remains. If @arpthark hadn't ID'd this as a YBB-641 it would have taken a little time for me to figure out the model, but looking at the pics it's definitely that model.

Case is junk (outer plastic cracked/missing). If anyone needs case parts from it, let me know soon.

At some point we're going to swing by Baltimore Brass and get and idea of what it'll take to get it back into a more presentable condition.

Same school had a couple others on the same site that sold last week. Anyone here grab either of those? This it was another Yamaha, and a Conn.

[arpthark]

I think Yamahas of that vintage had that weird brown/purple painted-on logo, and it's probably come off.